THANKS to some dodgy hands-across-the water deal cooked up by Eric Pollard, half the Dingle clan are sunning themselves in Spain, doing their finest impersonation of the King family.

In tonight's hour-long episode, Lisa is reincarnated as Lady Sadie, Delilah makes her move on Carl and Debbie the teenage trollop turns her most alluring scowl on a poor unsuspecting waiter. Does this girl ever smile?

But back home, cold hard reality comes crashing down on Sam as Dr Forsythe tells him: "Alice has got cancer and she should have an abortion."

Dr Forsyth must have been bunking off medical school the day they did doctor-patient confidentiality or he would probably have thought twice about dropping this bombshell in front of another patient who had just come in to have her blood pressure checked.